alt Hacker Newsthe token usage isn’t sustainable. formal english is a barrier but requirement for specification. brevity is the language of money and that’s the premise of management using ai.
fyi language alone can’t define/describe requirements which is why UML existed.
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ako • today at 7:25 AM
I think uml exists to help humans understand and communicate specifications, not because language alone is insufficient.
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Natural language is a fully general system and can define and describe everything.
You could deterministically process any UML diagram into a prose equivalent.
And in fact you couldn't do the other way around (any prose -> UML) because UML is less powerful than natural language and actually can't express everything that natural language can.